What Agent Onboarding Actually Looks Like (A Practical Walkthrough)

After I argued that running AI agents is really a management problem, the obvious next question was: okay, so what does that look like in practice? (Nobody actually asked. I’m choosing to believe that’s a reach problem, not an interest problem.)

So I answered it anyway. This is the hands-on companion — a walkthrough of onboarding agents the way you’d onboard people. Write the spec like a job description. Start them read-only. Build trust in stages. Diagnose failure instead of ripping the whole thing out. Same discipline, new kind of team.